The Ancora pen company was founded on the shores of Lake Maggiore, Italy, in the early part of the twentieth century. Giuseppe Zanini received his first fountain pen as a gift, and fountain pens became his gift to the world with the inception of the Ancora pen company at Sesto Calende in 1919. His earliest wish was simply to make beautiful pens, but his long-range desire was to create every piece of every Ancora pen in his own factory. Zanini's untimely death in 1929 bequeathed the fruition of this dream to his son Alfredo, and within a year, all parts of the company's ebonite and celluloid button-filled pens were produced within the Ancora factory.

Eighty-five years later, Giovanni Santini is fulfilling the original mission of the brand: to produce exquisite pens with passion and care and share them with those who appreciate the timeless fervor that created them. Santini collects vintage pens and owned a pen shop in Turin for a number of years. But it was his work as a pen repairman that gave him the initial impetus to make his own writing instruments. Santini resumed the production of Ancora pens in 1998, and the passion he puts in the pens today is the same passion Zanini had for his products.

 

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Ancora dedica a Pietro il Grande e a San Pietroburgo, sua citta elettiva un'edizione limitata finemente dipinta a mano

Raffigurato sul corpo della penna in sella a un destriero bianco, in uniforme da parata e nella classica posizione con cui erano soliti essere ritratti i grandi condottieri. Pietro il Grande, proclamato zar nel 1682, celeberrimo esponente della dinastia dei Romanov, il personaggio al quale rende omaggio Ancora con un'edizione limitata a 25 roller e 25 stilografiche chiamata appunto Peter the Great.

Il dipinto in miniatura realizzato sul fusto di resina blu periata richiede agli artigiani quattro giorni di lavorazione per ciascun pezzo, prima di poter essere laccato per preservarne la conservazione.

 

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